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Van Jones
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 20
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I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
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Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.
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Donald Trump's promised the moon. Now he has power. He's going to fail to deliver. He's not going to be able to bring a bunch of coal jobs back and a bunch of factory jobs back in this global economy. Period. Because you can't. It's not going to happen.
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Donald Trump's a hell of a performer, he's a hell of an entertainer. If you put him on and let him say his crazy stuff, you're going to get a lot of viewers. If you take him off and have some sober discussion about what's going on in Syria, you're going to lose 80 percent of your audience.
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Trump is holding together the shakiest coalition that you could conceivably govern on. It is a conservative, populist alliance that agrees with itself on very little.
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The time has come for a public-private community partnership to fix this country and put it back to work.
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I've never launched any initiative or campaign that people thought was a slam dunk.
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Environmental justice is the movement to ensure that no community suffers disproportionate environmental burdens or goes without enjoying fair environmental benefits.
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I have become the poster child for calling all the Trump people racists, when, in fact, I don't think they're all racists, but they tolerated racism. And that's a problem.
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Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.
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Higher energy costs are unavoidable in all future scenarios.
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There are some cities that are doing good stuff, but there aren't enough of them. If you don't fight for what you want, then you deserve what you get. And in politics, if you don't ask, you don't get at all.
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For me, I think that the struggle around how to deal with Islam in the United States is the defining moral struggle of this half of the new century.
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Any successful long-term strategy will require that the green wave fully and passionately embrace the principles of eco-equity.
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Now I think liberals have gone from underreacting to Trump and saying that Trump is just a clown and a buffoon, and that Hillary Clinton's going to kick his ass, to now overreacting, and saying, Oh my God, 60 million people consciously endorsed a white supremacist for president.
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